it's the economy, stupid Idiom
stupid
1. creative
2. Very
I may be daft, but I'm not stupid
I might do or say silly things occasionally, but in this instance I know what I am doing (Usually used when someone questions your application of common-sense).
ask a stupid question and you'll get a stupid answ
ask a stupid question and you'll get a stupid answer Also,
ask a silly question. Your query doesn't deserve a proper answer, as in
Am I hungry? ask a stupid question! One authority believes this idiom is a variant of
ask me no questions and I'll tell you no fibs, which appeared in Oliver Goldsmith's play
She Stoops to Conquer (1773) and was frequently repeated thereafter. [Early 1800s]
It's the economy, stupid.
cliché The one affair voters affliction best about is the bloom of the country's economy. The byword was coined by political architect James Carville for Bill Clinton's presidential attack in 1992. For all the scandals and controversies surrounding the governor, the affair best acceptable to bound her in the accessible acclamation will be the abiding furnishings of the recession. After all, it's the economy, stupid.it's the economy, stupid
Failing to abode bread-and-butter problems. The byword was invented by Bill Clinton’s strategist, James Carville, during Clinton’s 1992 attack for the presidency. Carville appropriate Clinton was a bigger best for admiral than George H. W. Bush because Bush had bootless to do annihilation about a contempo recession. It afraid as a assurance on Clinton’s attack address in Little Rock, Arkansas. The New York Times writer and Nobel Prize–winning economist Paul Krugman acclimated it: “What political scientists . . . acquaint us is that it absolutely is the economy, stupid” (July 18, 2010). The appellation not alone was again abundant to become a cliché but gave acceleration to agnate locutions for blame, such as “it’s the voters, stupid” or “it’s the oil spill, stupid.”Learn more: stupid
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